Intro: B5 . . F#5 . . F#5 . . . . .
B5 Ab5
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
B5 Eb5 Ab5
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
E5 F#5
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
There's a tree where the doves go to die
Ab5
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
C#5 Ab5 C#5 . . . . B5
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
E5 B5 C#5 B5
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Eb5 Ab5
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#5 E5 . . . . .
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
F#5 . . Ab5 . . F#5 . . F#5 . .
B5 Eb5 Ab5
Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
B5 Ab5
On a chair with a dead magazine
E5 F#5
In the cave at the tip of the lily
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
In some hallways where love's never been
Ab5
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
C#5 Ab5 C#5 . . . . B5
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
E5 B5 C#5 B5
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Eb5 Ab5
Take this waltz, take this waltz
E5 Fm7-5 . . . . .
Take its broken waist in your hand
E5 . . G5 . . Ab5 . . Eb5 . .
Ab5
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
C#5 Ab5
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
E5 B5 . . . . . F#5 . . F#5 . .
Dragging its tail in the sea
B5 Ab5
There's a concert hall in Vienna
B5 Eb5 Ab5
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
E5 F#5
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ab5
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
C#5 Ab5 C#5 . . . . B5
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
E5 B5 C#5 B5
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Eb5 Ab5
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#5 E5 . . . . .
Take this waltz it's been dying for years
B5 . . . . . F#5 . . . . .
B5 Eb5 Ab5
There's an attic where children are playing
B5 Ab5
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
E5 F#5
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
Ab5
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
C#5 Ab5 C#5 . . . . B5
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
E5 B5 C#5 B5
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Eb5 Ab5
Take this waltz, take this waltz
E5 Fm7-5 . . . . .
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
E5 . . G5 . . Ab5 . . Eb5 . .
Ab5
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
C#5 Ab5
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
E5 B5 . . . . . F#5 . . F#5 . .
Dragging its tail in the sea
B5 Ab5
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
B5 Eb5 Ab5
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
E5 F#5
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
B5 Ab5
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
B5 Eb5 Ab5
With the photographs there, and the moss
E5 F#5
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
My cheap violin and my cross
Ab5
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
C#5 Ab5 C#5
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
C#5 B5 E5 B5 C#5 B5
Oh my love, Oh my love
Eb5 Ab5
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#5 E5 . . . . .
It's yours now, it's all that there is
B5 . . . . . F#5 . . . . .
B5 Ab5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
B5 Eb5 Ab5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
E5 F#5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
E5 E5 Eb5 C#5 B5 Eb5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
Ab5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
C#5 Ab5 C#5 C#5 B5
La, la, la... La, la, la...
E5 B5 C#5 B5 Eb5
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
